Lard or butter scoop



(No Model.)

J. SMALL & J. H. CALEB.

LARD OR BUTTER SCOOP.

No. 282,677. Patented Aug. 7, 1883. v

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICEQ JOHNSTON SMALL, OF BRIDGEWATER, AND J OHN H. CALEB, OF FALLS- TON, PENNSYLVANIA.

LARD OR'BUTTER scoop.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 282,677, dated August 7, 1883.

' 4 Application filed June 21, 1893. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J OHNSTQN SMALL and JOHN H. CALEB, residents, respectively, of

Bridgewater and Fallston, both in the county of Beaver and State of Pennsylvania, have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lard or Butter Scoops, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention consists of a scoop adapted for use in dipping butter, lard, or any other material from the vessels containing the same, and constructed, as will hereinafter be more particularly described.

In the drawings Figure 1 illustrates in perspective a scoop embodying our invention, and Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same.

A is a wide metal plate, bent to form a blade, I), of an almost semicircular form, and extended at one end to form a tang, c, for the reception of a' handle, 13; The extreme end, (I, of the blade 6 is rounded off to permit the same to more readily penetrate the contents of a vessel. The blade is inserted into the material to be scooped, and when well embedded therein is turned with its end (I uppermost, then withdrawn, lifting a large body of material, which i dle, B, at one end, as and for the purpose set forth. F

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHNSTON SMALL. JOHN H. CALEB.

\Vitnesses C. O. BOBINGsON, CLINT. D. TAYLOR. 

